The weapons were taken not from police vehicles but from off-duty officers' cars or trucks.

"Three times this year, weapons have been taken from the personal vehicles of officers. both retired and presently employed," Zappala said.

The district attorney said the weapons belong to a Pennsylvania State Police trooper and another local police officer. Zappala said somebody also stole two guns belonging to a retired North Fayette officer, taking them from from the police retiree's truck in the driveway of his home in Findlay in February.

This month one of them was linked in two crimes.

"The weapon winds up in a guy named Robertson's waistband. He's found deceased in Mckeesport. It's the same .380 that goes back to the retired detective," Zappala said.

The DA says Tony Robertson was killed in McKeesport on Aug. 10 while carrying the retired officer's stolen gun. Robertson is suspected of using the gun to shoot and wound a man in Duquesne two nights earlier. Ballistics tests link the .380 to that crime.

Zappala has mailed a letter to the Allegheny County Chiefs of Police Association, urging chiefs to "please remind your officers that if the weapon is not being carried on their person, it must be secure in their vehicle."

"If anybody understands the significance of what a handgun can do, we do. Your guys do. So you be the leaders in the community, step up and do that," Zappala said.

He has a message for all gun owners as well.

"We're making sure the public understands, if you're going to carry a weapon, carry it on your person. If not, it has to be secure in your vehicle. And that's (in) a lock box or some other device," Zappala said.

"Say a child enters your vehicle, and you have a handgun that hasn't been secured and the child hurts themselves, you're going to have a problem.

It's a responsibility that the public has. If you're going to own a weapon, do it responsibly. we lost a life."

The district attorney did not identify the state trooper or the other police officer whose weapons were stolen, or the date and circumstances of their cases.

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